Chapter 525: Wood Porcupine (2/2)

We all broke into laughter in unison. It wasn’t even a matter of good or bad. In a game, there were no champions without a devious mind on their shoulders. The difference was that some people managed to keep their principles intact, some would abandon them in the face of adversity, and some had completely renounced any and all morals.

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The wait lasted an entire half an hour. The meat grinder had probably slaughtered a million players at this point, and the ironic thing was that the rush almost never slowed until the very end. By now, the pile of equipment had grown so tall—the height of a full grown adult at least—that we almost couldn’t see the Wood Porcupines anymore. There was every item imaginable in the pile such as helmets, weapons, shields and so on, and some were Purple Gold or even Outstanding Purple Gold–grade.

”Just look at all this equipment. What a waste…” Xu Yang clicked his tongue admiringly.

I smiled. ”Don’t worry, they’re definitely not going to waste since it takes 10 hours or more for dropped items to disappear. Once we clear out all one hundred Wood Porcupines, we can summon our low-level players to carry these items back to the city. We can keep everything above the Dark Gold grade in the warehouse. The rest we will liquidate.”

”Okay! God, this is so awesome…”

Chaos Moon: ”Awesome my ass, we haven’t even heard the plan to clear out the Wood Porcupines yet. These mobs just slaughtered almost a million players, and we may very well be next.”

I smiled and checked the exit again. The flow of players had finally abated—for this entrance at least—and over 4000 of our players had arrived and secured it from outside. This was Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls’ private entrance now.

”Alright, it’s time to break through the Wood Porcupines!”

I raised the Heaven-stealing Sword and ordered, ”I want 10 people with high HP and Defense to come with me. The guild leader will be our party leader. Gui Guzi, I want you to party a hundred riders and activate Knight God. Prepare to clear out the Wood Porcupines the moment I give you the signal.”

”Okay!”

We took some time to reform our parties. He Yi currently had 170 Tactics, meaning that Royal Road’s effect was boosted by 170%. Long story short, all our stats were boosted by 40%, and the Wood Porcupine’s Attack was reduced by 30%. In situations like these, her Famous General Skill was much better than my Martial God.

”How should we do this?” Li Chengfeng asked.

I replied, ”Stay close to me, and do not lag behind me for more than 3 seconds. We’re going to move forward using the blind spots between their attacks and take out the 3 Wood Porcupines to the left first. Then, we’ll push forward bit by bit and take them all out. I repeat, stay close to me, or you’re going to suffer a horrible death…”

”Okay, we got it, don’t worry!”

I, He Yi, Li Chengfeng, Xu Yang, Chaos Moon, High Fighting Spirits and all the other fighters who had learned Barrier Break were all in one party. Now that our HP and Defense were boosted by 40%, we could endure a round or two of Spike Rain without any problem. Again, this was why Famous Generals were so important. What could a guild without a Famous General possibly do against these brutal Wood Porcupines?

”Go!”

I ran forward in a straight line while nine of my party members followed closely behind. The second I stepped past the line, dozens of Wood Porcupines immediately locked onto us, shuddered their bodies and fired their spikes. While they were falling toward us from the sky, I abruptly cut 45 degrees to the side and entered a blind spot. Once all ten of us were inside the clearing, I raised my sword and shouted, ”Hold!”

”Thud thud thud thud!

The spikes landed all around us. Some of them were practically centimeters away from our noses. Chaos Moon’s face turned as white as a paper when she saw this. ”OMG, thank goodness we followed the right person, or this would be real bad…”

I had known since the beginning that the Wood Porcupines launched their Spike Rain once every 7 seconds. It was our frame to advance!

”Go!”

I shouted again and ran about 30 yards forward before cutting toward the second blind spot I had planned for in my head. This time, even more Wood Porcupines locked onto us and launched their devastating Spike Rain. Thankfully, it was relatively safe inside the blind spots, and no one got hurt. Still, everyone except He Yi was so nervous that they looked like they could faint at any moment. He Yi had desummoned her mount to stand next to me. She even grabbed my arm and gave me a sweet smile when I looked at her. The sight was so enviable that Li Chengfeng and Xu Yang thought in unison: Sigh, the guild leader is so biased!

”Go!”

This was the third time we took off, and another 30-yard charge later, we were only 8 yards away from the nearest Wood Porcupine!

”What do we do?” Gui Guzi shouted for instructions.

I raised the Heaven-stealing Sword and fired a red beam into the air. The next moment, four divine weapons descended from the sky and plunged into the Wood Porcupine. The God Binding Art could bind even a god, to say nothing of an animal!

I pointed at the leftmost Wood Porcupine and shouted, ”There are no blind spots there, so we’re going to have to Charge and kill that Wood Porcupine in one go! But be ready, we’re going to have to endure at least one Spike Rain! In 3, 2, 1, charge!”

Swhoosh swhoosh swhoosh...